DIRECTORATE FOR QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN EDUCATION

Department for Curriculum Management and eLearning

Educational Assessment Unit
Annual Examinations for Primary Schools 2012

YEAR 4 MATHEMATICS MENTAL PAPER TIME: 15 minutes

Teacher’s Paper
Guidelines for the conduct of the Mathematics Examination – Mental Paper

1. Words written in bold should be emphasised.

2. Read, loudly and clearly, each question twice in succession, and then allow 5,
to 10, to 20 seconds as the test progresses through the three sections.

3. Access to rough paper for working out answers is not allowed. Any working on
the answer sheet, however, will not be penalised.

4. The questions should be read out in English and no code-switching/mixing is

allowed. Code-switching is permitted only for giving pupils instructions.

5. Before starting the test, read out the following instructions, using exactly these
words:
• I will read out each question twice. Listen carefully both times. You will then
have time to work your answer.
Se naqralek kull mistoqsija darbtejn wara xulxin. Ismagħni sew. Wara
jkollok il-ħin biex tweġibha.
• If you make a mistake, cross out the wrong answer and write the correct
answer next to it.
Jekk tieħu żball f’xi risposta, aqtagħha u ikteb ir-risposta t-tajba ħdejha.
• You will not be allowed to ask any questions once the test has started. Ma
tistax tistaqsi mistoqsijiet hekk kif jibda t-test.

6. At the end of the test, read out the following instructions, using exactly these
words:
• The test is finished; put down your pens.
It-test spiċċa; poġġi l-bajrow fuq il-mejda.
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MENTAL PAPER

‘For this group of questions, you will have 5 seconds to work out each answer
and write it down.’
‘Għal dawn il-mistoqsijiet li ġejjin, għandek 5 sekondi biex taħseb u tikteb
kull risposta.’

1 What is half of forty?

2 How many edges does a cube have?

3 How many days are there in two weeks?

4 Round one hundred and seventy two to the nearest hundred.

5 Write in digits the number two hundred and fifty three.

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‘For the next group of questions, you will have 10 seconds to work out each
answer and write it down.’
‘Għal dawn il-mistoqsijiet li ġejjin, għandek 10 sekondi biex taħseb u tikteb
kull risposta.’

6 What needs to be added to six to make twenty?

7 What is fifty less than six hundred and eighty?

8 What is eight lots of hundred?

9 How many groups of five in forty five?

10 How many metres in three and a half kilometres?

11 What is the difference between one hundred … and … sixty three?

12 Ninety five, ninety seven, ninety nine… What is the next number?

13 How many twenty euro cent coins do I need to make one euro?

A bottle of water holds one thousand litres, one litre or one

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millilitre?

15 Write a fraction which is smaller than one half.

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‘For this group of questions, you will have 20 seconds to work out each
answer and write it down.’
‘Għal dawn il-mistoqsijiet li ġejjin, għandek 20 sekonda biex taħseb u tikteb
kull risposta.’

16 Write twenty minutes past four as a digital time.

Mary thinks of a number.

17 She divides her number by four, and she gets a six.
What is Mary’s number?

There are fifty five people on a bus.

18 Sixteen get off and twelve get on.
How many people are left on the bus?

Write an odd number, between twenty and thirty, which can be

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exactly divided by three.

An apple weighs thirty seven grams more than a banana.

20 A banana weighs one hundred and twenty grams.
What is the total weight of an apple and a banana?

END OF MENTAL PAPER

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 DIRECTORATE FOR QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN EDUCATION
Department for Curriculum Management and eLearning
Educational Assessment Unit
Annual Examinations for Primary Schools 2012

YEAR 4 MATHEMATICS MENTAL PAPER TIME: 15 minutes

Name: _____________________________________ Class: _______________

Instructions to Candidates

 The teacher will read each question twice. Listen carefully to the teacher both
times. You will then have time to work your answer.

 If you make a mistake, cross out the wrong answer and write the correct answer
next to it.

 You will not be allowed to ask any questions once the test has started.

 This paper carries a total of 20 marks.

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 MENTAL PAPER
ANSWER SHEET

1.

2. edges

3. days

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10. metres

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 11.

12.

13. coins

14.

15.

16. ____ : ____

17.

18. people

19.

20. grams

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 DIRECTORATE FOR QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN EDUCATION
Department for Curriculum Management and eLearning
Educational Assessment Unit
Annual Examinations for Primary Schools 2012

YEAR 4 MATHEMATICS TIME: 1 h 15 min

WRITTEN PAPER

Name: _____________________________________ Class: _______________

1. Fill in:

a) 67 + 4 =

b) 54 - = 45

c) × 4 = 36

d) 56 ÷ 8 =

e) 4·5 m = cm

f) Double = 16 = × 4

g) 620, , 820, 920, , 1120

h) 230 minutes = hours minutes

1
Shade of the counters.
4

i)

Write two even numbers that total 50.

j)
+ = 50

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2. Use all the 3 cards below in each question.

Write:

a) the biggest 3 digit number.

b) the smallest 3 digit number.

c) a 3 digit number which has 4 as tens.

d) a number which is ten less than 447.

3. True or False.

True False
3
a) kg is less than 1 kg
4

b) 1500 g is more than 1 kg 5 g

c) 6 apples are always heavier than 3 kg

1 1
d) kg + kg is the same as 500 g
4 4

e) 250 g + 120 g + 230 g + 1400 g = 20 kg

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Name: _____________________________________ Class: _______________

4. Look carefully at these 2-D shapes.

Match.
Note: The first one has been done for you.

a) This shape has many lines of symmetry. Shape A

b) This shape is a hexagon. Shape B

c) This shape has 4 right angles and 4 equal sides. Shape C

d) This shape is a pentagon. Shape D

e) This shape has 2 lines of symmetry.
Shape E

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5. a) Use the digits to write the number:

nearest to 250

nearest to 500

b) Use the digits to make the total.

+ = 116

6. Jamie takes 250 ml of orange juice to a picnic.

He drinks half of it at lunchtime, then drinks another 65 ml in

the afternoon.

a) How much does he drink in all?

_______ ml

b) How much is left in the packet?

_______ ml

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Name: _____________________________________ Class: _______________

7. Martina loves working with fractions.

a) This is the plan of Martina’s bedroom. It is in the shape of a square.
1
of her bedroom is a reading area.
4
1
Shade of her bedroom.
4

Martina’s bedroom

b) Martina collects stickers. These are some of the stickers she has.
Some are smiley faces and some are sad faces.
1
of her stickers are smiley faces.
8
1
Fill in to make a fraction which is equal to .
8

1 3
=
8

c) Martina has 3 chocolates. Each chocolate has 5 equal slices.

She eats 2 equal slices from 1 chocolate. How much chocolate is left?

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8. Tom goes on a picnic with his friends.
These are some things which he has in his backpack.

drinking can ball game lunch box

a) Match the things on the left to the names of 3-D shapes on the right.

drinking can sphere

ball cuboid

game cylinder

lunch box cube

b) The picture on your right shows a cone.

Tick  the correct answer.

(i) How many faces does the cone have? 1 2 3

(ii) How many edges does the cone have? 1 2 3

(iii) How many vertices does the cone have? 1 2 3

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9. The cinema is showing these 3 cartoons.

TRUCKS
POP STAR DINO
Starts: 8:00
Starts: 10:00 Starts: 11:15
Ends: 9:50
Ends: 11:05 Ends: 12:45

a) (i) TRUCKS starts at 8:00. (ii) TRUCKS ends at 9:50.

Mark this time on the clock. Mark this time on the clock.

(iii) How long is the film TRUCKS?

_______ minutes

b) Ben is watching a film at the cinema at quarter to 11.

Which film is he watching? (Tick  the correct answer.)

TRUCKS POP STAR DINO

c) Jessica decides to watch DINO. She is at the cinema 20 minutes earlier.

What time is she at the cinema?
_____:____
_

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10. Maya and Luke stopped for lunch at a restaurant.

MENU

juice 22c juice melon

pie fish
melon 30c ice cream yoghurt

soup 35c a) How much did each pay?

pie €1·68 Maya Luke

burger €3·86 juice melon

fish €2·79 pie fish

apple tart 59c ice cream yoghurt

ice cream 43c € ___ · ___ € ___ · ___

yoghurt 41c

b) How much change did Maya receive from two coins of €2?

€___ · ___
c) Luke had €3·06 left in his wallet after lunch.
Tick  the 4 coins that make this amount.

d) You have just 1 euro. You want to spend it all.

What can you buy from the MENU above?

and

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11.
house bridge forest

beach hills

farm

cliffs campsite pond

a) You are at the farm.

Write down what you see if you look:

(i) South (ii) North East

(iii) South West (iv) West

b) You are at the farm facing North.

What are you going to face if you turn:
(i) 1 right angle clockwise? ______________
(ii) 1 right angle anticlockwise? ______________

c) Use Compass Points to complete these sentences:

i) The beach is ______________ of the hills.
ii) The bridge is ______________ of the campsite.
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 12. All Year 4 children in a school are asked to choose their most favourite fruit.

FAVOURITE FRUIT
11
children
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
banana orange apple kiwi peach pear

From the bar chart above:

a) Which is the most favourite fruit?

b) Which is the least favourite fruit?

c) How many more children prefer the pear to the kiwi?

children

d) How many children are there in all?

children
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13. Mr Galea, the drama teacher, needs to group the children in class.

If I group the
If I group the
children in teams
children in teams
of 4, there will be
of 8, there will be
1 extra child.
1 extra child.

If I group the
children in teams
I have less
of 3, there will
children than 30
be 1 extra child.
but more children
than 20.

a) How many children are there in Mr Galea’s class?

children

b) Which is the best way for Mr Galea to group the children, so that all the
children are in equal groups?

END OF PAPER

Marks’ Scheme Nos. 1a- j 10 × 2 = 20

2-7 6×4 = 24
8 - 13 6×6 = 36
TOTAL 80

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